Today at the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Annual Meeting held in Washington, DC, in a bold move toward greater interoperability, DirectTrust announced a new initiative to help patients get access to their medical records across all providers: Partnership for Patients.
“Partnership for Patients moves us one step closer to the re-imaged future for healthcare; one in which patients get access to all their medical records from one central location,” said Linda Van Horn, President / CEO of Kansas City-based iShare Medical℠ and one of only four participants in the inaugural launch of Partnership for Patients.
iShare Medical℠ provides software as a service (SaaS) for patients and healthcare providers to get, view, and share medical records. But unlike other vendors, iShare Medical℠ gets the medical history including prescriptions, surgeries, lab results, allergies, immunizations, x-rays and scans from all of the patient’s providers and stores them in one central location eliminating the need to log into multiple patient portals.
“This is an exciting time to be in healthcare IT because we are experiencing a fundamental, game-changing paradigm shift in how we get, share and use medical records,” said Van Horn. “Engaging the patient plays a critical piece in this new paradigm.”
Patients sign up for iShare Medical℠ Messaging., which looks like an email system but is actually a highly-secure way of sharing medical records between ID-proofed Trusted entities. iShare Medical℠ Messaging allows people to get, view, download and transmit their medical information. Messages can only be opened by persons who are authorized to view them using their secret key to unlock the messages, which are sent via the highly-encrypted, privacy-secured network.
Source: The Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, “Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap”, FINAL Version 1.0
“It’s time that patients get access to their medical records in one shareable location,” said Van Horn. “We are thrilled to be a Fully Accredited DirectTrust Anchor Healthcare Information Services Provider (HISP) providing secure encrypted HIPAA-compliant exchange of medical records in the Partnership for Patients initiative.”
Partnership for Patients leverages the DirectTrust Trust network of more than 58,000 healthcare providers. DirectTrust is a national, non-profit association of 145 health information technology and healthcare providers working together to provide the safe, highly-secure (private) exchange of health information. To learn more about the Partnership for Patients initiative, click here: Partnership for Patients
iShare Medical℠ is innovating the future of healthcare by creating state-of-the-art solutions to improve the way patients, providers and health care industry organizations manage data and communicate. For more information about iShare Medical’s Messaging for Patients, click here: iShare Medical℠ Messaging